Kairos Power is going to construct a low-power demonstration reactor at the East Tennessee Technology Park (ETTP) in Oak Ridge, Tennessee. Kairos will invest one hundred million dollars in a project to showcase its ability to delivery low-cost nuclear heat. The Hermes reactor is a scaled-up version of the Kairos Fluoride Salt-Cooled Hight Temperature Reactor (KP-FHR).
Ambient office = 66 nanosieverts per hour
Ambient outside = 158 nanosieverts per hour
Soil exposed to rain water = 159 nanosieverts per hour
Oklo Inc is based in California. They have received a Site Use Permit from the U.S. Department of Energy. They have demonstrated a prototype of their new metallic fuel. Oklo was award fuel material from the Idaho National Laboratory (INL). They developed the first advanced combined license application which complete acceptance review and was docketed by the NRC.
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Ambient office = 128 nanosieverts per hour
Ambient outside = 94 nanosieverts per hour
Soil exposed to rain water = 92 nanosieverts per hour
A new report titled Unlocking the UK’s Nuclear Hydrogen Economy to Support Net Zero, was just published by the U.K.’s Nuclear Sector Deal’s innovation Group. The report presents a series of recommendations for taking advantage of the opportunity of zero-carbon hydrogen produced by nuclear power. The report is a cross-sector action plan for consideration by the U.K. Nuclear Industry Council.
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Ambient office = 114 nanosieverts per hour
Ambient outside = 66 nanosieverts per hour
Soil exposed to rain water = 63 nanosieverts per hour
Matthew Bunn of Harvard Kennedy School said, “For whatever reason, for a certain brand of right-wing extremists in the United States and elsewhere, there's a real obsession with nuclear.” He went on to say that this is especially concerning when they work at a nuclear plant or knows someone who does.
